trentnix

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by trentnix 10y ago
But that's exactly the logic global warming skeptics use - there are underlying incentives to arrive at certain conclusions. If you find yourself in the business of having to defend or attack incentives and influences, you're not
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by trentnix 10y ago
You don't trust Monsanto, someone else only trusts Monsanto, and I don't trust anyone. But trust doesn't matter because the system isn't built on trust. It's built on peer review and repeatability. Right?
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by trentnix 10y ago
Next thing you know we will find out lobbyists are writing legislation!</snark> Seriously though, is the content of the research valid, or not?
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by trentnix 10y ago
Readers are pretty crappy at reading the news too. One would be wise to apply the same skepticism you have for science reporting on all reporting. Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an art
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by trentnix 10y ago
And I haven't learned to start what I can finish. Maybe one of these days...
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by trentnix 10y ago
I would assume that the solution wouldn't be to double down on bias hoping that bias in the opposite direction will somehow result in harmony. That's like a cable news network letting polemics on opposite sides of an issue (as if
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by trentnix 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle From the link: The Peter principle is a concept in management theory formulated by Laurence J. Peter and published in 1969. It states that the selection of a candidate for
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by trentnix 10y ago
Whatever it is, you can be certain that the solution is massive taxation and central control by bureaucrats.
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by trentnix 10y ago
It's a phenomenon I've noticed with gas prices. When the price of oil goes up, gas provides immediately follow. When the price of oil goes down, the price reduction seems to lag a bit. Maybe I'm imagining things, but that&#x2
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by trentnix 10y ago
1. Hardly. It's simply a recognition that a temp worker and temp opportunity recognize the fleeting nature of a particular job position. 2. They read like propaganda because they set up dramatic emotional arguments about people and the
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by trentnix 10y ago
But that's the thing - temp labor is, by definition, disposable . A business has little incentive to invest in employees that are likely to turn over frequently, and that's what temp labor does. The links you provided - which rea
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by trentnix 10y ago
The scenario you describe simply doesn't pass the smell test. I own a business (retail) that employs 10 and retail is, to a certain degree, "unskilled". My experience has been that it is very, very difficult to find dependabl
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by trentnix 10y ago
We know, now, there are adverse side effects to everything you listed. I thought the game we were playing was, "what is accepted as healthy now that will be obviously dangerous to a future generation?" I just can't imagine tr
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by trentnix 10y ago
Birth control and antidepressants...?
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by trentnix 10y ago
I read something a couple of decades ago that's helped me avoid, occasionally, the mindset that causes me to be a curmudgeon: someone else's success is not my problem. Thats not to say that any particular criticism is unjustified.
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by trentnix 10y ago
That's not at all how it works. One doesn't get that body type from running long distances, one runs long distances well because they are predisposed to that body type. Consider, for example, a swim meet. If you look at the compet
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by trentnix 10y ago
Here's part 2 of the article. http://www.chicagobusiness.com/article/19931009/ISSUE01/1000...
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by trentnix 13y ago
How to Win Friends and Influence People I had avoided this one for years due to its age and because reading it seemed to imply one has no friends and no influence. It gets long-winded in parts with a few too many examples, but it's exc
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by trentnix 13y ago
He's probably also disciplined enough not to sound off on topics that he doesn't know anything about. I was consulting (software) at a client site and one of the employees at the client remarked that I seemed to know everything ab